Brochures and pricing information for your mcrash software?
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2019 10:55 am
Q: (via email) I was interested in some brochures and pricing information for your mcrash software?
A: We do not market the mcrash program. We wrote a couple research papers with the intent of possibly marketing mcrash
We are in the process of implementing components of mcrash into the automatic iteration/optimization option of msmac3D (see SMAC2003 - The Automatic Iteration of SMAC)
CRASH was created as a simple pre-processor for SMAC. However due to the simplicity of the technique (and the cost of running SMAC on mainframe computers back in the 70s-80s), and the fact it was to be used only for statistical purposes looking at trends, NHTSA opted to use CRASH (they have subsequently created WinSmash which is a NHTSA USE ONLY version of CRASH (NHTSA got tired of litigation related subpoenas, etc for CRASH))
Fast forward 40 years and many folks use and/or teach CRASH as a primary reconstruction program in litigation (and of course if all you have is damage it is good, and it is a good first pass technique)
For additional information on CRASH, please see
A: We do not market the mcrash program. We wrote a couple research papers with the intent of possibly marketing mcrash
- "CRASH-97 - Refinement of the Trajectory Solution Procedure" and
- "Effects of Restitution in the Application of Crush Coefficients"
- among others
We are in the process of implementing components of mcrash into the automatic iteration/optimization option of msmac3D (see SMAC2003 - The Automatic Iteration of SMAC)
CRASH was created as a simple pre-processor for SMAC. However due to the simplicity of the technique (and the cost of running SMAC on mainframe computers back in the 70s-80s), and the fact it was to be used only for statistical purposes looking at trends, NHTSA opted to use CRASH (they have subsequently created WinSmash which is a NHTSA USE ONLY version of CRASH (NHTSA got tired of litigation related subpoenas, etc for CRASH))
Fast forward 40 years and many folks use and/or teach CRASH as a primary reconstruction program in litigation (and of course if all you have is damage it is good, and it is a good first pass technique)
For additional information on CRASH, please see
- Collision & Trajectory Analysis Forum which includes many technical question on components of CRASH
- What is CRASH For additional links related to CRASH